Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

“The Divine Commander Blade!”

Startled cries rang out.

Everyone recognized the divine weapon filled with faith energy. It was Le Xing’s personal weapon. His Divine Commander Blade was like a heavenly blade nailing that giant head to the ground.

Only then did people clearly see the attacker.

It was a massive python exuding torrential devil qi. Despite also being a Divine Sovereign, it had been slain in a single blow.

“Dean Long Chen, that was impressive!”

The sweeping elder slowly materialized in the sky, smiling warmly at Long Chen. Clearly, he had witnessed everything that had happened here.

BOOM!

At this time, an explosive sound rang out. The void blew apart, revealing Ye Boran, Long Can, Le Xing, and the Divine Sovereigns of the Kunpeng race and Nine Color Deer race.

Le Xing’s hands were empty.

His expression darkened the instant he saw his Divine Commander Blade embedded in the corpse of a Devil Sovereign. When that weapon flew back toward him, his face turned even uglier.

As for the other four Divine Sovereigns, their expressions were no better.

Just moments earlier, all five of them had joined forces against the sweeping elder, confident that their youth and stamina would allow them to grind him down.

However, the sweeping elder’s power was far above theirs. The moment Long Chen was in danger, he instantly left them, and none of them could stop him.

The wall between worlds? It might as well be paper in front of the sweeping elder. It had posed no obstacle to him. Before he disengaged from them, he had even seized Le Xing’s weapon.

In contrast, for the five Divine Sovereigns to escape that shattered world, they had been forced to attack the wall between worlds with their full power.

Only now did they truly understand.

The sweeping elder’s power was simply beyond their level. He was simply letting Long Chen test his own power.

In front of Long Chen, heavenly geniuses like Long Biluo and Tian Leizi were nothing more than ants. Even a Lifehunter Divine Sovereign had fallen to Long Chen’s hands.

Moreover, Long Chen hadn’t even relied on refined combat techniques, which showed that his true power greatly exceeded that of the Lifehunter Divine Sovereign.

At this moment, Ye Boran’s face was ashen. A deep, instinctive fear welled up within him.

A newly advanced Sovereign Lord had slain a Divine Sovereign through sheer power alone. If Long Chen’s cultivation continued to rise, sweeping through the Divine Sovereign realm would be only a matter of time.

Suddenly, Le Xing waved his hand, and his Divine Commander Blade flew back into his hand.

Having one’s own weapon seized and used by another was an unbearable humiliation. Just as he reclaimed it, the devil python’s gigantic body suddenly convulsed.

Everyone jumped, momentarily thinking it had come back to life.

Then they saw the cause.

Wilde.

He was at the python’s tail, gnawing away with enthusiasm. The earlier convulsion had likely been caused by him biting into some muscles or nerves.

“Wilde, put it away for now. You can eat it later,” Bai Xiaole said.

The battle wasn’t over yet, so Bai Xiaole helped Wilde put away the devil python’s corpse.

“You undying bastard, don’t you think that we can’t beat you!” Long Can shouted through her gritted teeth.

The next moment, she touched her forehead, and her essence blood gushed out of the space between her eyebrows.

At the same time, she took out a three-inch-tall divine statue in her left hand. Her essence blood instantly coated it.

Suddenly, milky-white faith energy erupted like a volcano, accompanied by a burst of majestic god aura.

Wave after wave spread like tides across a boundless sea, completely drowning the pressure of the Divine Sovereigns present.

“What a terrifying pressure!”

Everyone was shocked.

Divine Sovereign pressure alone was already enough to drive people into despair. Yet this godly aura made even Divine Sovereigns feel like frail boats caught in a raging ocean.

At this moment, even Long Chen’s heart trembled.

He knew—

His destined enemy had arrived.

Within the blazing divine light, a handsome man in white robes slowly appeared.

Long Can, Le Xing, and the distant experts of the Brahma line got to their knees and kowtowed piously.

“Greetings, Divine Venerate Brahma!”

This white-robed man looked young, barely older than Long Chen. Yet, his bearing was graceful and grand.

Strange runes revolved within his pupils.

When he appeared, a sacred scripture echoed throughout heaven and earth, like gods chanting in unison.

The chaotic laws of the world immediately stabilized. It was as though a sacred force were cleansing a wounded world.

Long Chen’s heart shook.

This Lord Brahma was completely different from the one Long Chen had seen before. If not for the familiar aura, Long Chen would never have believed they were the same being.

The sharp aura Long Chen had sensed back then was no more, replaced by a profound and unfathomable air. Lord Brahma’s eyes gleamed with divine light capable of piercing directly into one’s soul.

Long Chen wasn’t the only one.

Everyone present trembled.

They were finally witnessing the existence whose name shook the ten thousand worlds—the Venerate among Gods, who was standing at the very peak of the god path.

They were all aware that this Lord Brahma was just a projection. Yet, even his projection was enough to suppress Divine Sovereigns until they could barely breathe.

When Lord Brahma appeared, his eyes locked onto Long Chen.

“Long Chen?”

The moment he spoke, Long Chen found that the world around him had changed.

Everything else faded away. Only he and Lord Brahma remained.

Long Chen looked at him calmly and didn’t say a word. He knew that Lord Brahma was terrifyingly powerful.

The moment he spoke, he pulled Long Chen into his mental world.

Yet, Long Chen neither panicked nor resisted.

He simply met his gaze.

Lord Brahma studied him for a moment, then nodded slightly.

“I see. No wonder you’ve grown so quickly. You’ve actually inherited the Star Master and my master’s legacies and wills.”

“Your skin really is thick,” Long Chen mocked. “You still have the face to call her your master?”

Lord Brahma smiled faintly.

“A master for one day is a master for eternity. She will always be my most respected master. Our philosophies differed—that was all. That difference never changed, so we inevitably became mortal enemies.”

Lord Brahma’s gaze sharpened.

“Is Master doing well? I sense she has already entered the Primal Chaos World,” he asked.

In the end, Lord Brahma’s eyes locked onto Long Chen, runes flowed in them.

Long Chen felt as though a pair of eyes had opened within his mind-sea. He slowly shook his head.

“Your master isn’t doing too well. She was betrayed by her own disciples and hunted through a thousand reincarnations. With a traitor like you still alive, how could she possibly be well?”

Long Chen knew that Lord Brahma was trying to peer into his memories. But as long as he didn’t let his emotions get the best of him, Lord Brahma would not be able to see anything.

Long Chen suppressed his anger.

This was his first true confrontation with Lord Brahma—a clash of wills and souls. He couldn’t afford even the slightest carelessness.

At the same time, such an opportunity was exceedingly rare. If he wanted to understand Lord Brahma, he had to face him head-on.

“I see,” Lord Brahma said softly. “You know of her thousand reincarnations. Then... are you him?”

Long Chen’s heart jolted.

He realized too late that he had revealed information he shouldn’t have. However, his expression didn’t so much as twitch.

“I am me,” he replied calmly. “And I am not me.”

For the first time—

Lord Brahma’s pupils contracted ever so slightly.

That startled Long Chen. This was just him repeating the nonsense he had never understood. He deliberately said something confusing, but it actually triggered a reaction out of Lord Brahma.

Suddenly, the world snapped back into place.

Everyone reappeared.

Long Chen felt a hand on his shoulder. The sweeping elder had pulled him out of Lord Brahma’s mental world.

“Lord Brahma, are you planning on taking a stand for your subordinates today?” asked the sweeping elder.